OUVRAGE : M. Wood, E. Sthoeger, The UN Security Council and International Law

Michael WOOD, Eran STHOEGER 

The UN Security Council and International Law explores the legal powers, limits and potential of the United Nations Security Council, offering a broadly positive (and positivist) account of the Council's work in practice. This book aims to answer questions such as 'when are Council decisions binding and on whom?', 'what legal constraints exist on Council decision making?' and 'how far is the Council bound by international law?'. Defining the controlling legal rules and differentiating between what the Council can do, as opposed to what it should do as a matter of policy, this book offers both a tool for assessment of the Council as well as realistic solutions to address its deficiencies, and, most importantly, evaluates its potential for maintaining international peace and security, to the benefit of us all.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. The legal nature of the Security Council
2. Decisions of the Security Council
3. The powers of the Security Council
4. Possible limits in the powers of the Security Council
5. The Security Council and measures not involving the use of force
6. The Security Council and the use of force
7. The Security Council, international organizations and the use of force
8. The Security Council and the international court of justice
9. The Security Council's contribution to the development of International Law

Conclusions

Michael WOOD, Eran STHOEGER, The UN Security Council and International Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022 (300 pp.)

Michael Wood is a Barrister at Twenty Essex Chambers. He is a Member of the UN International Law Commission, and a Senior Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. Michael Wood was legal adviser to the UK Foreign Office between 1970 and 2006. He was a lawyer in the UK Mission to the UN between 1991 and 1994, working mostly on Security Council matters. He has acted for many governments before the ICJ and other international courts.

Eran Sthoeger is a litigator and consultant in international law. He is Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School as well as at Seton Hall Law School. On top of his experience as an international litigator, for nearly a decade, Eran Sthoeger monitored and analysed the work and inner workings of the Security Council as a Policy Analyst at Security Council Report, NY, an organization that follows and analyzes the work of the UN Security Council.